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Everyone's buying $4,700 'AI desktops' right now. A lab test just showed most people need way less

StorageReview ran real benchmarks on every local-AI desktop you can buy in 2026 — and the winner isn't what most shoppers assume.

Ravi Malhotra · 6d ago · 7 min

Hardware

a 5-year-old GPU still beats nvidia's newest budget card for local AI — here's the catch

24GB of old VRAM versus 16GB of new, low-power silicon — I ran the real math on what each one costs, up front and over a year.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min

Hardware

amd's 16GB GPU is $400 cheaper than nvidia's — for local AI it's not the easy win it sounds like

Same 16GB of VRAM, wildly different price and software maturity in August 2026 — I ran the actual numbers.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 4 · 6 min